Scripture days

 This summer I decided to do a "Scripture day" with my kids.  We read a story out of our scriptures, learn about it and then do an activity to reinforce it.  For our first week we did Daniel and the Lions den.  We talked about how important prayer is and the things we pray for.  We looked online to figure out how big a lion is and then made a lion that big.  On our lion we wrote the things we pray for and the things we are grateful for.  The kids loved doing it, plus we did a little science, math, writing, and art (look at the face of this thing)

 The next week we did Lehi's dream.  Once again we read the scriptural account and then we made a diagram of his dream.  We talked about what all of these things symbolized  and how we can apply it to our lifes. (i.e. what temptations we are faced with, how we can stay holding onto the word of God).

The kids did so good giving answers and then figuring out what to use for our diagram.

 We have a licorice 'iron rod" held up by cookies and sticks. The straight and narrow path is a fruit by the foot.  The mists of darkness was jello that didn't set up.  The tree of life was a carrot with a lettuce leaf and marshmallows.  The dark river was pudding and the great and spacious building was a graham cracker house, which crumbled just as I was talking about how the pride of the world would one day crumble.  It turned out to be a fantastic day, and the kids LOVED it.  Spencer said, That was the coolest thing we have done mom.

 After we were through talking about the scripture story the kids loved eating it all.  You would think they hadn't eaten for years the way they were inhaling this stuff.